The Boston Strangler: A Complete Timeline of Albert DeSalvo's Alleged Victims
, the Boston Strangler raped and killed 13 women across Boston. He began a life of crime and sexual assault against women in the late 1950s. The outlet claims DeSalvo was nicknamed the "Measuring Man" after he would knock on the doors of young women, claiming to represent a modeling agency, and "crudely fondle" them with his tape measure. He was arrested and spent nearly a year in prison for those crimes.
Upon his release DeSalvo began breaking into the homes of women across New England, where he'd tie them up and sexually assault them while wearing green handyman clothes, earning him a new nickname, "Green Man." DeSalvo's crimes continued to worsen, and in 1962, he killed his first victim Anna Slesers with her housecoat and tied the ends, which later became his signature. According to Biography.
On October 27, 1964, DeSalvo was arrested after a victim he raped reported him to the police. According to, DeSalvo confessed the details of the slayings of 13 women to a psychiatrist, but he was never charged or convicted for the Boston Strangler murders due to lack of physical evidence. He did receive a life sentence for the "Green Man" assault. An unidentified inmate stabbed DeSalvo to death at Walpole State Prison on November 26, 1973.
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